MSI GS63VR 7RF Thermal Throttling without Hot Temps

[inkjet456]

Hey everyone,

Hey everyone,

I've had quite the hell of a time with my new laptop. It's the MSI GS63VR 7RF with a 1060 and 256+1TB in it. The laptop definitely thermal throttled out of the box and with cooler boost and comfort mode on, it was a little better but still throttled after 5-10 minutes of playing games like Black Ops 3 and CS:GO and Borderlands 2. Seeing a lot of reviews and posts about under-volting, I decided to it. I setup XTU and found my maximum amount of under-volting possible: -0.145V. -0.150V was too unstable and would give me blue screens every so often. That helped temperatures a little bit, but I STILL found myself with thermal throttling issues. Using the laptop on my lap, on my long mousepad on my desk, or on my wife's bare smooth desk all gave the same temperatures.

I got tired of random thermal throttling and decided to open up the laptop up. It took quite a while and I broke the LAN/SD card board connector, buuut I managed to get some left over Noctua thermal paste smushed in between the GPU and CPU. That brought temps down from 90-100C to 65-75C. A dramatic difference. However while playing Ghost Recon Wildlands, the laptop seems to thermal throttle even at those low temps. It seems to only throttle when the CPU utilization spikes up, and I have no idea why. I've attached a picture of the XTU graph. Any ideas?

I always play with -0.145V, custom fan setting with all the fans at 150% all the time, comfort mode, USB Boost off, (last 3 are through the MSI Dragon Center app) and high performance battery mode on. The 1060 never got above 71C degrees in my recent testing, so that's not thermal throttling.

I can't return or RMA or activate warranty because I lost my Best Buy receipt, but the purchase shows up on my credit card purchases.

Specs:
i7-7700HQ
16GB RAM
GTX 1060 6GB
256GB SSD
1TB Spinning Rust

 

[nickbachu]

I would say since it is a laptop the gpu could be causing the the problem. I recommend to check temperature while gaming before throttling. Use GPU-Z and go to sensors. Then go to Gpu Temperature and click the arrow down and click show highest temperature reading and then play some games. Then let me know what the temperature is on highest reading.

 

[inkjet456]

I would say since it is a laptop the gpu could be causing the the problem. I recommend to check temperature while gaming before throttling. Use GPU-Z and go to sensors. Then go to Gpu Temperature and click the arrow down and click show highest temperature reading and then play some games. Then let me know what the temperature is on highest reading.

I said in the original post: "The 1060 never got above 71C degrees in my recent testing, so that's not thermal throttling."

 

[nickbachu]

its can be and you could not just be see'ing it happen at the time. Thats why i suggested gpuz so you can rule it out for sure.

 

[inkjet456]

Alright, I did the GPUZ way and the highest it read was 76C. Played for quite a while there too.

 

[nickbachu]

you should try to remove the extra voltage you are adding. This could be causing your power delivery system to heat up faster than normal and causing the throttling. Try hardware monitor and if u can post a screen shot of it.

 

[inkjet456]

you should try to remove the extra voltage you are adding. This could be causing your power delivery system to heat up faster than normal and causing the throttling. Try hardware monitor and if u can post a screen shot of it.

I'm not adding any extra voltage, I decreased the voltage by -0.145V. As seen here:

Here's the XTU graph to show throttling (the purple color)

And here's the HWmonitor window where I played for about 20 minutes:

 

[nickbachu]

you should try to remove the extra voltage you are adding. This could be causing your power delivery system to heat up faster than normal and causing the throttling. Try hardware monitor and if u can post a screen shot of it.

I'm not adding any extra voltage, I decreased the voltage by -0.145V. As seen here:

Here's the XTU graph to show throttling (the purple color)

And here's the HWmonitor window where I played for about 20 minutes:

have you tried to disable any power saving features in the bios?